Lovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring! An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place.
Through it, we understand someone who moved with a sense of purpose, warmth and humor and left a mark that was very distinct indeed..
It celebrates a man who built bridge between East and West for the greater part of his lifetime.
Written in the form of an autoBiographical novel filled with Zen and poetry, this book recounts a Life of hard work, books and music, of spiritual questing, and of learning to be at peace with one\'s self and one\'s choices.
He was, in many ways, a man who changed the world! Mister Timeless Blyth is his story.
His fingerprints are everywhere today in the study of Zen, Haiku and Japanese culture, and his work has influenced some of the most important writers of the 20th century-- including Huxley, Oshi, Aiken, Watts, Salinger, Kerouac, Ginsberg and others.
Blyth ultimately became the key link and mediator between the Imperial Household and the occupying American forces, whom many credit with saving Japan from chaos after the war.
His pivitol works were published in Japan even during his internment. -- William Scott Wilson, author of The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda Imprisoned during World War I as a conscientious objector and interned during World War II as an enemy alien, Reginald Horace Blyth was a poet, a scholar, a musician, a linguist and a student of Zen who ultimately became teacher to an emporer.
I could not put the book down.
Spence has included an interesting constellation of characters who influenced Blyth on what he considered his own karmic path, giving us an entirely new perspective of his Life and personal development.
Throughout this work, Mr.
Blyth\'s profound understanding of Haiku and his self-deprecating humor permeate every page.
In it, he has conveyed the Haiku scholar\'s love of music, eastern and western literature, Zen Buddhism, and sly contradictions.
Blyth\'s own voice.
In Mister Timeless Blyth , writer Alan Spence has created a fascinating (auto) biography, convincingly in R.
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Lovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring! An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place
